Originally Posted by
Shintai
Heh, the shader part is basicly like P4 ALUs. And it would quickly be 600Mhz vs 3.2ghz. Or if you lower it abit, a 2billion trasistor IA64 at 95W at 1.6-2Ghz vs 750million G92 at 500Mhz at about 110W. All at 65nm.
TSMCs process tech is compared to AMD/Intel is garbage. But its cheap and extremely high volume. TSMC is basicly making cheap Lada/Skodas while AMD/Intel is making expensive lamboginis and ferraries. Why do you think GPUs are so cheap aswell? To compare, TSMC even still uses low-K in their 45nm because high K and metal gates are too advanced. Why do you think GPUs easily die (even by themselves) but CPUs hardly if even do?
Hell even TSMC writes a 40% speed increase compared to 65nm for generel purpose process. While Intels is 51% and AMDs will also be somewhere near that. Not even to talk about leakage that is TSMC major issue. TSMC also got a 30nm gatelength and Intel 35nm. Simply to help cut cost, not to boost performance. The oxide thinkness for TSMC is 1.25nm and 1nm for Intel. The 2 processes are worlds apart. And AMDs will look alot more like Intels than TSMC.
This also helps to illustrate the differences:
Note: TSMC is NOT making 32nm low power chips. But they released information about what they will do.